If the Metaverse is the Internet, where does that leave VR? Exploring the Immersive layer of XR – extended reality.

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Further Reading: 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323682-working-in-virtual-reality-for-a-week-made-people-less-productive/

https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-metaverse-users-quit-month

https://www.wired.com/story/extreme-fashion-metaverse/

https://futurism.com/the-byte/founder-oculus-zuckerberg-metaverse

https://www.wired.com/story/china-threatens-splinter-metaverse/

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In part one of our simples guide to the Metaverse, we try to cut through the complexity and corporate clutter to delineate what the metaverse is, and when we’ll get to use it. 

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We're skipping ahead a couple of episodes because this story is about Elon Musk. Which means it will be out of date before you take your next breath: Mass layoffs, a financial crisis, growing voices of intolerance. And a kitchen sink. No, it isn’t the global economic crisis. It’s Twitter under its new owner, Elon Musk.

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Further Reading: 

https://www.ft.com/content/8db7e24b-5a15-4856-b81e-a2027157aaad

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/29/elon-musk-twitter-social-media-toxic-content

https://www.statista.com/statistics/303681/twitter-users-worldwide/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/

https://johnnaughton.substack.com/p/monday-7-november-2022

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-where-did-tweeters-go-twitter-is-losing-its-most-active-users-internal-2022-10-25/

https://fortune.com/2022/11/06/elon-musk-twitter-monetization-model-can-beat-youtube-longer-posts-videos-soon/

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-soon-allow-users-monetize-content-make-long-form-posts

https://gizmodo.com/musk-twitter-layoffs-1849751286

https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/tv/elon-musk-parody-twitter-actors-suspended-sarah-silverman-kathy-griffin-3344565

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/04/musk-blames-activist-groups-for-major-advertisers-pausing-spending-on-twitter/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-recommends-voting-republicans-us-midterm-elections-tweet-2022-11-07/

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A Hot Wheels-looking centrifuge that fires projectiles into space, submarine-cloaking stealth rubber, the science behind bullwhips and a full menu of Musk feature on today’s episode.

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Further Reading: 

https://www.space.com/spacex-galaxy-33-34-intelsat-satellite-launch

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/banks-loss-elon-musk-twitter-takeover

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-07/morgan-stanley-led-banks-face-500-million-loss-on-twitter-debt?sref=fqqmZ8gi

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-tesla-semi-truck-pepsi

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-cybertruck-propeller

https://futurism.com/the-byte/payload-nasa-spinlaunch-excavator

https://futurism.com/the-byte/leaked-memo-facebook-metaverse

https://futurism.com/the-byte/china-drone-robodog-huge-gun

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/science/whips-sensors-brain.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2341416-metas-text-to-audio-ai-can-create-common-sounds-and-generate-music/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=technology

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2340542-stealth-rubber-coating-could-make-submarines-nearly-invisible-to-sonar/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=technology

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2339612-people-trust-ai-to-make-big-decisions-as-long-as-a-human-checks-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=technology

For up to a third of the population, sleep is a task that never seems to be completed successfully. Thankfully, a new generation of sleep science is creating individualized approaches to sleep therapy that could see millions of people nodding off peacefully at night.  

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Further Reading: 

https://kulturpop.substack.com/p/roboelon

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634063-300-insomnia-success-suggests-we-need-more-nuanced-mental-health-support/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634063-300-insomnia-success-suggests-we-need-more-nuanced-mental-health-support/

https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-ai-text-into-3d-objects

https://dreamfusion3d.github.io

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/05/it-feels-like-fresh-air-to-my-ears-can-brown-noise-really-help-you-concentrate

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It’s time to put your backpack on and join the cyber cockroaches as we look at insect cyborgs, robo-Vader, asteroid impacts, ETH mining and the return of Gawker.

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Further Reading: 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/25/gawker-comeback-sued-closure-hulk-hogan

https://futurism.com/the-byte/darth-vader-ai-voice

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/darth-vaders-voice-emanated-from-war-torn-ukraine

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/darth-vaders-voice-emanated-from-war-torn-ukraine \

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/ethereum-completes-the-merge-which-ends-mining-and-cuts-energy-use-by-99-95/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/gpu-mining-for-ethereum-ends-as-the-merge-completes

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/09/the-end-of-ethereum-mining-could-be-a-bonanza-for-gpu-shoppers/

https://gizmodo.com/ethereum-bitcoin-price-plunges-sec-chair-merge-security-1849551695

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsZo1cxMqck

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-slams-spacecraft-slams-into-asteroid-to-test-earth-saving-tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ugRQF_4nk

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-robot-hurricane-fiona

https://futurism.com/the-byte/cyborg-cockroaches-remote-controlled

https://futurism.com/the-byte/inventor-cyborg-cockroaches-rationale

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Are you quiet quitting or quietly doing your job? Do you need a WhatsApp group to tell you? Or is this simply the impact of a new generation on the workplace?

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Further Reading: 

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/quiet-quitting-trend-employee-disengagement/671436/

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/09/13/1122059402/the-economics-behind-quiet-quitting-and-what-we-should-call-it-instead

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/02/how-quiet-quitting-became-the-next-phase-of-the-great-resignation.html

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/19/whatsapp-group-chat-overload-have-we-reached-peak-whatsapp

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Are work notifications ruining your life? Do you spend more time reacting to pings than doing your actual work? Are productivity tools ruining your productivity? Don’t worry. You’re not alone.

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Episode Sources: 

https://robm.me.uk/2022/08/efficiency-movement/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/25/ping-phone-notifications-off-whatsapp-instagram

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/06/doomscrolling-linked-to-poor-physical-and-mental-health-study-finds

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/06/success/return-to-office-hybrid-mandates/index.html

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The secret laptop destruct sequence of Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation, a lawn-mowing android, social media intrusion and chewing gum make for some very weird science. 

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https://www.wired.com/story/janet-jackson-rhythm-nation-crash-hard-drives/

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Our minds are crying out for silence in an over-stimulating world. But is silence only for the wealthy? And can too much of it harm rather than help us?

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Episode Sources: 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533990-700-the-power-of-quiet-the-mental-and-physical-health-benefits-of-silence/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsuUOuEZ9Q

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2452161304806914

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-51174-001

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